Acute & Emergency Medicine Pharmacist

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

Job summary

Are you a qualified pharmacist looking to significantly develop your skills in Acute & Emergency Medicine?

We are building a strong team of pharmacists within our Emergency Services Directorate at The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust and would love to hear from you.

In this role, you’ll provide specialist pharmaceutical expertise to acutely unwell patients on the Acute Medical Unit. As your skills and experience grow, with the support of a senior pharmacist, you’ll also extend this provision to patients within the Emergency Department.

You’ll benefit from comprehensive support for your professional development. A team of senior pharmacists, under the guidance of a Principal Pharmacist ACP, will help you achieve your goals across key areas including:

  • Clinical practice
  • Leadership
  • Education
  • Research

This is a newly established role within a progressive team. We are focused on enhancing patient care at the front door of the hospital by providing high-quality pharmaceutical care, with a shared goal of improving health outcomes for our population.

If you’re ready to take on a key role in a developing service and advance your expertise, we encourage you to apply.

Main duties of the job

To partake in specialised clinical pharmacy duties on the Acute & Emergency Medicine areas, ensuring core clinical pharmacy activities are undertaken.

Supervise/provide professional support to junior pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, students and support staff.

Managed by senior pharmacist responsible for acute & emergency medicine with oversight from the principal pharmacist for the area.

Undertakes postgraduate clinical training where relevant to the post.

To act as an independent prescriber once registered with the GPhC in line with local policy and entered in the trust NMP register.

Person Specification

Qualification

Essential

  • Registration with GPhC as a pharmacist
  • Ability to demonstrate clinical experience and competence in acute & emergency medicine or a broad range of medical and surgical specialities relevant to post
  • Able to communicate well with a wide range of staff from a range of disciplines from both within and outside the NHS
  • Ability to manage own time effectively and prioritise appropriately.
  • Ability to work both on own initiative and to co-operate within a team to achieve desired outcomes

Desirable

  • Experience in supervising, training and assessing staff
  • Completed the pharmacy clinical diploma or equivalent (score 2 if commenced but not completed)
  • Independent prescriber or working towards it (score 2 if commenced but not completed)
  • Experience of implementing and delivering the objectives of cost/service improvement programmes.

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team

Desirable

  • Evidence of participation in service improvement projects

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 12 July 2026

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